I understand the dad is upset by the injuries, but surely accidents happen?

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Thoughts on this? It's not unusual for children to fall and hurt themselves. OK, this looks a bad one, but to say the nursery was negligent seems a bit of a stretch?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/dad-pulls-daughter-out-nursery-30030123

That’s a bad injury and will result in permanent scarring. I would have removed my child too.

The nursery don't know how this happened

So was the child alone ?

No cameras in the rooms ? That's rare for nurseries

That looks nasty. I don't doubt the parents were upset and worried. My child had a similar injury that he did at home with me one to one supervision. These things do happen. Nursery not really knowing how she did it is the sticking point though. Unfortunate incident all round - hope it gets sorted without too much bad feeling

My DD tripped over her own feet and fell on a toy and did a similar injury. I was stood right next to her and had NO idea she was going to do it. It was glued and healed fine.

Both of mine have gone through particularly clumsy periods at that age when they've had a growth spurt or we haven't noticed they need new shoes ().

DD1 memorably fell on one side of her forehead at nursery and then did the other side when out with us a few days later creating a perfect mirror of the bump and cut on the other side. At about that time they used to get her to go on the bikes so she'd put a helmet on and then leave it on her

I haven't read the article, but it looks like the kind of injury that can happen very easily with little ones, and in a split second too.

The staff have no clue how it happened and ‘found her lying on the floor.’ He also says she has had other injuries. I suppose we don’t know the full situation, if she has had more injuries which can’t be explained by the staff being paid to care for her, this might just be the last straw.

My daughter tripped in front of my eyes and fell tooth first on the ONLY toy in the room and chipped her tooth. That was with 1-1 supervision.

Accidents happen, toddlers/young children are notoriously clumsy. The Dad sounds like he's attention seeking.

As a one-off, accidents happen and sometimes have serious consequences.

As a pattern of injuries at the same nursery, I would be very unimpressed that they couldn't even tell me what had happened and "found her like that".

Yes, nursery staff turn their backs and are doing other stuff, but normally they have a sense of where the children are and what they are doing so most accidents are prevented (because they can see it heading that way, for example a child waving a heavy wooden toy about) or, at the very least, they have a good idea of how the accident happened even if they didn't actually see it (banged into the play kitchen, fell over a toy car etc.).

The first time my son ended up at a&e I accepted accidents happen. The second time when his head had to be glued I gave notice and asked for a full investigation. 1 month later OFSTED rated the nursery inadequate and a big point was children’s safety and supervision levels.
I went with my gut and I was right.